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Peter LaSalle
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Peter LaSalle is an American novelist and short story writer. His most recent book is a collection of essays on literary travel, The City at Three P.M.: Writing, Reading, and Traveling. He has also written two novels, Strange Sunlight and Mariposa’s Song, and five story collections: The Graves of Famous Writers, Sur Glace, Tell Borges If You See Him, What I Found Out About Her, and Sleeping Mask: Fictions (forthcoming). His work has been reprinted in such anthologies as The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, The Best American Fantasy, The Best of the West, Sports Best Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. (updated 10/2016)

His AGNI essay “Walking: An Essay on Writing” is reprinted in The Best Travel Writing 2010.

AGNI has published the following work:

Essays
No Ventriloquism: The Idea of Voice in Book Reviewing
AGNI 45Print Only
Essays
Metaphysical Messages: With J. L. B. in Buenos Aires
AGNI 58Print Only
Essays
Walking: An Essay on Writing
AGNI 70Print Only
Fictions
Stadium
AGNI 61Print Only
Fictions
Mendoza-Burke’s Reform
AGNI 65Print Only
Fictions
Brazil
AGNI 78Print Only
Fictions
Where I Was When My Older Brother Died
AGNI 84Print Only
Fictions
Black Book
AGNI 36Print Only
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